{"id":441076,"date":"2026-10-31T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-january-20-2018-to-march-12-2018-at-8-5n-345-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:27:27","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-january-20-2018-to-march-12-2018-at-8-5n-345-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-january-20-2018-to-march-12-2018-at-8-5n-345-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from January 20 2018 to March 12 2018 at 8.5\u00b0N 345.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-Jan-20_to_2018-Mar-12_345.0_8.5.json\">JSON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Event type: Cold spell<\/p>\n<p>Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Andorra<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Cabo Verde<\/li>\n<li>Canarias<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>France<\/li>\n<li>Gambia<\/li>\n<li>Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Guinea-Bissau<\/li>\n<li>Liberia<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Mauritania<\/li>\n<li>Morocco<\/li>\n<li>Portugal<\/li>\n<li>Senegal<\/li>\n<li>Sierra Leone<\/li>\n<li>Spain<\/li>\n<li>Tunisia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 52 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: January 20 2018 to March 12 2018<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -2.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 17.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -10.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: -11.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 8.5\u00b0N 345.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 12994051 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2018-Jan-20_to_2018-Mar-12_345.0_8.5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2018-Jan-20_to_2018-Mar-12_345.0_8.5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><br clear=\"all\" \/>Fig. 1: Map of most extreme temperature anomalies (standardized) experienced during the event. The purple star indicates the center of the extreme event. Green hatching illustrates all areas under the effect of extremes at some time during the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_time_evo_2018-Jan-20_to_2018-Mar-12_345.0_8.5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_time_evo_2018-Jan-20_to_2018-Mar-12_345.0_8.5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><br \/><br clear=\"all\" \/>Fig. 2: Evolution of temperature at the center of the event. The climatological percentile distribution is illustrated with color shadings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/evo_map_2018-Jan-20_to_2018-Mar-12_345.0_8.5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/evo_map_2018-Jan-20_to_2018-Mar-12_345.0_8.5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><br \/><br clear=\"all\" \/>Fig. 3: Maps illustrating the evolution of standardized temperature anomalies during the event.<\/p>\n<p>Event ID: Cold_spell_2018-Jan-20_to_2018-Mar-12_345.0_8.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: JSON Event type: Cold spell Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference): Algeria Andorra Burkina Faso Cabo Verde Canarias C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire France Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Libya Mali Mauritania Morocco Portugal Senegal Sierra Leone Spain Tunisia Duration: 52 days Time span: January 20 2018 to March 12 2018 Statistics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-january-20-2018-to-march-12-2018-at-8-5n-345-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from January 20 2018 to March 12 2018 at 8.5\u00b0N 345.0\u00b0E&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2591,2740,2773,2824,2816,2800,2732,2810,2779,2801,2802,2589,2775,2789,2786,2747,2790,2780,2748,2768,1924,2049,2040,2429,2541,2332,1950,2374,2348,2376,2395,1944,1926,1928,1952,1835,1930,2385,1954,2088,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-algeria","category-cold-spells-affecting-andorra","category-cold-spells-affecting-burkina-faso","category-cold-spells-affecting-cabo-verde","category-cold-spells-affecting-canarias","category-cold-spells-affecting-cote-divoire","category-cold-spells-affecting-france","category-cold-spells-affecting-gambia","category-cold-spells-affecting-guinea","category-cold-spells-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-cold-spells-affecting-liberia","category-cold-spells-affecting-libya","category-cold-spells-affecting-mali","category-cold-spells-affecting-mauritania","category-cold-spells-affecting-morocco","category-cold-spells-affecting-portugal","category-cold-spells-affecting-senegal","category-cold-spells-affecting-sierra-leone","category-cold-spells-affecting-spain","category-cold-spells-affecting-tunisia","category-extremes-affecting-algeria","category-extremes-affecting-andorra","category-extremes-affecting-burkina-faso","category-extremes-affecting-cabo-verde","category-extremes-affecting-canarias","category-extremes-affecting-cote-divoire","category-extremes-affecting-france","category-extremes-affecting-gambia","category-extremes-affecting-guinea","category-extremes-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-extremes-affecting-liberia","category-extremes-affecting-libya","category-extremes-affecting-mali","category-extremes-affecting-mauritania","category-extremes-affecting-morocco","category-extremes-affecting-portugal","category-extremes-affecting-senegal","category-extremes-affecting-sierra-leone","category-extremes-affecting-spain","category-extremes-affecting-tunisia","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}